Random thought of the day
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
It's also fully moddable so modders will be able to add their own flag rules.
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Has any math been done around decorrelating the reals from the integers as normalized values onto 0..1 from 0 to ∞ with any normalized real being able to serve as an integer basis except for 0?
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Since it's 2022, it's not weird to have a 2022 car anymore.
It was fun while it lasted.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
It was fun while it lasted.
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Which room signs do we have? And what condition be they in? We need directionality!
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do biologists use bug trackers?
Paging @BernieTheBernie
Replying late, because I was tracking bugs.
What do you think of this cutie:
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It's too big to ignore. Better turn it into a feature!
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
too big
That's why it is called Megaloxantha bicolor. 7 cm of pure beauty!
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@BernieTheBernie This is presumably the origin of the expression "Ooh, shiny!"
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@da-Doctah no, that's eyeballs.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@BernieTheBernie This is presumably the origin of the expression "Ooh, shiny!"
That bug is a member of the family Buprestidae. In common English, they are called "jewel beetles", in German "Prachtkäfer" (literally "splendid beetles"). So you nailed it.
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Whether or not birds are real, it's time for them to go. Therapsida won and fuck Archosauria. Wars have consequences.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
fuck Archosauria
Downboated >:|
You seem very confused about what a theropod is.
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@kazitor the non-saurian branch? I could go with synapsid but the archosaurs diverged before then. You may be thinking of pelycosaurs.
Although, you could also be thinking of crayons, in retrospect, and this seems more likely.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
the non-saurian branch?
Birds are theropods are archosaurs are saurians. If archosaurs were on the way out then theropods would be gone by necessity too.
You may be thinking of pelycosaurs.
I’m only thinking of the words you write, barring one tyop. Maybe you should use better ones.
you could also be thinking of crayons,
At least a crayon could construct a correct cladogram.
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@kazitor your archosaur sympathy is showing. No, you jackfuck brushpush, categories don't fucking commute, so the identities you draw (heh, draw) are fucking laughable. Perhaps you'd like to name the other skull arch structure? Or get into gait discussions?
Or, since you are humping the term cladogram, draw (heh, draw) the correct.
To further illustrate your inexplicable hubris -
tetrapod
, a term not hitherto used, does encompass all of these groups.Therapod
iirc takes ana
, now that you mention it, in contrast to the other termsauropod
you may actually know.Synapsid
more specifically names the group that won.You're a fucking bird, aren't you? Definitely diapsid.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
I’m only thinking of the words you write
That way lies madness.
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@Gribnit Atic Atac wants their artwork back from the 1980s.
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@Arantor I sent it back immediately.
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@Gribnit except you didn’t, it’s still there in your post.
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@Arantor that's just a picture
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@Gribnit yes and so was Atic Atac’s artwork. It was also delightfully pre-NFT era.
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@Arantor The original was done on a Mafiti LCD, since erased. Funge that.
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(Alec Guinness impression) Who’s the more fungible, the funge, or the funge who follows him?
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@Arantor well obviously the latter since it's an inherently fungible category per the problem statement, in fact, both are, but a non-funge-follower funge follows no funges and a funge-follower, be they funge or no, follows at least 1 funge with no upper limit, and the size of the category matters significantly here.
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@Gribnit and that just establishes that they’re all idiots as per Wiktionary.
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@hungrier
Did you just steal my post?
Never mind.
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@Arantor Wiktionary is optimistic. Without either sustained and consistent effort or luck, everyone is an idiot pretty much all the time.
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It may seem an unfortunate shift in perspective to consider that those you interact with are in the process of dying, but it's all a matter of choosing your time.
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Spam cooked with pineapple was worth more than a quarter-million deaths, imo. Don't lie. It's good, and you should make some.
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While briefly meditating on the axiom
tat tvam asi
, it occurs to me that Tit Farm Asia would be a good name for a pr0n site.
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I wish the New York subway masturbators had a backing foundation, like the opera or the ballet. I feel they're doing important work and I want to send them money. Hopefully they at least have a guild or something.
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After Cinderella married the prince, did he become Lord of Cinder?
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So I was driving along listening to Bowie as one does, and I got to wondering:
Can one put out a fire with gasoline?
Say, a campfire. Dump enough 95 octane on it quickly enough to quench the fire before the fuel itself ignites? And, of course, if yes, then how much and how?
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@Watson you'd need to like flood it. Cut open the back of a cistern or something. The most flammable part of gasoline are the vapors around it, and gasoline evaporates constantly. In most scenarios the vapor will contact the flame before the liquid part.
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@Watson modifying the putting out fire with explosions method could also work, if you present the gas as mixed vapor at the explosive point.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do biologists use bug trackers?
Paging @BernieTheBernie
Replying late, because I was tracking bugs.
What do you think of this cutie:
Iridescence detected, cuteness increased by 7.
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If English language was consistent, I'd be an officer in charge of homeland security.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah no, that's eyeballs.
It does remind me of the morning I found a spider on my car's passenger window before leaving for work. Maybe a quarter of an inch across with legs outstretched, but in a near-fluorescent shade of Mountain Dew yellow.
Before relocating it so it could continue to live after I drove off, I spoke to it: "giving up entirely on that whole protective camouflage concept, eh?"
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
"giving up entirely on that whole protective camouflage concept, eh?"
Possibly aposematism (warning coloration). "Don't eat me, because I'm poisonous, venomous and/or taste really bad."
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What is the historical reason for electricity to be mostly 110/220 V (plus or minus some... inb4 about AC) more or less everywhere?
Standardisation was obviously going to happen so it's not a surprise that there are not billions of different standards (inb4 xkcd) (and yes, I know there are some variations, but you could restrict the question to just Europe or the US, if you want, and those variations mostly are quite close to those 2). But why did those standards settle on those specific values rather than, I don't know, 100, or 130, or anything else?
Was it just randomness of the number of coils that could fit on a metal bar (or whatever else), or was there some actual thinking going into that?
Also, why are the two most common standards multiples of each other (110/220)? Again, was it just the convenience of having twice as much loops on one side of a transformer than on the other (but that would mean people were designing for both standards at the same time), or was there some thought process about it?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
It does remind me of the morning I found a spider on my car's passenger window
Every story of finding a bug reminds me of the Prince of Cicadas.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
What is the historical reason for electricity to be mostly 110/220
2 vs 3 phase power. You can serve both types from the same mains.
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@remi It seems that the 110V in the US was because the initial Edison lightbulbs were designed for 100V DC and a 10% line drop was allowed for. Those were converted over to AC (with its somewhat lower drops) with little trouble, but the voltage stayed the same.
Don't know why Europe went for double that (except that that greatly reduces the problems with loss of power in cables, at a cost of needing more insulation) but it's notable that there's been a gradual coalescing of things into two global standards because of the possible economies of scale. The costs of converting to a single global standard are just far too high, with no agreement at all on who would change. (Systems have always had to be a little bit resilient against voltage change anyway; frequency has tight tolerances, but voltage doesn't.)
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@dkf Thanks, that's a pretty reasonable explanation. I mean, he obviously could have picked any voltage, but "100" and "10%" are both nice round numbers so it's no surprise they got picked.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf Thanks, that's a pretty reasonable explanation. I mean, he obviously could have picked any voltage, but "100" and "10%" are both nice round numbers so it's no surprise they got picked.
I'd say it's surprising that he didn't go with imperial units of 33.738 newton-eels.
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The classic Star Wars line "it's an older code, sir, but it checks out" prophetically demonstrated how big enterprises cared more about cargo-culting password rotation than doing proper expiration. Thought it could be argued that the cargo ship added a second factor of authentication.